Quotes About Challenges

Grow up, and that is a terribly hard thing to do. It is much easier to skip it and go from one childhood to another.

There are some remedies worse than the disease.

Invalids live longest.

Men build bridges and throw ra ilroads across deserts, and yet they contend successfully that the job of sewing on a button is beyond them. Accordingly, they don't have to sew buttons.

Misery acquaints a man with strange bedfellows.

There's no such thing as a nonworking mother.

He was dying all his life.

Call the roll in your memory of conspicuously successful [business] giants and, if you know anything about their careers, you will be struck by the fact that almost every one of them encountered inordinate difficulties sufficient to crush all but the gamest of spirits. Edison went hungry many times before he became famous.

Don't get hung up on a snag in the stream, my dear. Snags are not so dangerous-it's the debris that clings to them that makes the trouble. Pull yourself loose and go on.

I've been failing for like, ten or eleven years. When it turns, it'll turn. Right now I'm just tryin' to squeeze through a very tight financial period, get the movie out, and put my things in order.

Fight one more round. When your feet are so tired you have to shuffle back to the center of the ring, fight one more round.

To bear is to conquer our fate.

Every kind of fortune is to be overcome by bearing it.

Obstacles cannot crush me, every obstacle yields to stern resolve.

Life is a maze in which we take the wrong turning before we learn to walk.

Competition is easier to accept if you realize it is not an act of oppression or abrasion. ... I've worked with my best friends in direct competition.

Happiness is to be found along the way, not at the end of the road, for then the journey is over and it is too late. Today, this hour, this minute is the day, the hour, the minute for each of us to sense the fact that life is good, with all of its trials and troubles, and perhaps more interesting because of them.

I like the man who faces what he must, With steps triumphant and a heart of cheer; Who fights the daily battle without fear.

Sufficient to each day are the duties to be done and the trials to be endured.

There are a great many opinions in this world, and a good half of them are professed by people who have never been in trouble.

The world is all gates, all opportunities, strings of tension waiting to be struck.

In great affairs we ought to apply ourselves less to creating chances than to profiting from those that are offered.

Opportunities do not come with their values stamped upon them. ... To face every opportunity of life thoughtfully, and ask its meaning bravely and earnestly, is the only way to meet supreme opportunities when they come, whether open-faced or disguised.

Times of stress and difficulty are seasons of opportunity when the seeds of progress are sown.